Brann Dailor

If anything was going to scare the clouds away on Saturday afternoon, it was the sludge-metal behemoth of Mastodon, with the fantastic Brann Dailor behind the kit. Brann’s one of rock’s most watchable drummers, with power, kit dexterity and an incredible sound backing up the heavy duty riffs. That and he’s got Clown from Slipknot’s disembodied, shrunken head stuck on his kit.

They don’t say much, Mastodon - hardly the kind of rabble-rousing most other of Download’s big names do. Instead Dailor and his bandmates just rocked, hard and heavy, through tracks like Stargasm and a super Curl Of The Burl.